WEYMOUTH 1 FOREST GREEN 0 NICK Crittenden's second half freak goal ensured Weymouth bounced back to winning ways against Forest Green Rovers. The midfielder's first goal for the Terras ensured his side extended their superb Wessex Stadium form under
GARRY Hill is ready to pledge his long-term future to Weymouth. The Terras boss, whose fourth-place team beat visitors Forest Green Rovers 1-0 at the Wessex Stadium last night, says he is fully committed' to Weymouth and has ruled himself out of the
INQUIRIES were continuing today after a man apparently killed his girlfriend and then hanged himself. Police broke down the door of Laura Cody's semi-detached house in The Glebe, Durweston, near Blandford, after she failed to turn up for work. Officers
POLICE say they are not treating as suspicious the death of a man who was found in the River Asker at Bridport. A woman raised the alarm after making the discovery yesterday. He is believed to be a 31-year-old man from Bridport. The body was found floating
DORCHESTER'S historic Roman baths could be exposed as part of the redevelopment of the Charles Street area. Development and construction group Simons has been selected by West Dorset District Council as the preferred developer of the town centre car
BILLY Bragg attended the funeral of Maxine Edgington in Weymouth. The service, a celebration of Maxine's life, was held at St John's Church yesterday. Maxine, from Portland, was 47 when she died at Dorset County Hospital after suffering from breast
NEW police powers will allow officers to disperse nuisance groups in an area of Portland. Dorset Police have placed Easton Square under a dispersal order using anti-social behaviour legislation. The order, which remains in force until March 2007, allows
WITH 72 runners in the two-mile race and over 100 in the five-mile event, this was a record number of entrants for the annual Dumble Bimble Fun Run on Portland. Another record was set with the £450 raised from entry fees and a raffle and there will be
A BRIEF that will help shape Poundbury is to go out to public consultation with a controversial household recycling centre still included. West Dorset District Council is set to embark on a six-week public consultation on the Poundbury development brief
OLD soldier Thomas Warr is to be commemorated - more than 150 years after he rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade. People lined the streets of his home town Dorchester when his coffin was carried to his final resting place at Fording-ton - but the
WHEN Ann Stockley opened her morning post she was left speechless by an electricity bill for nearly £6,400. She showed it to husband, Len, and neither could quite believe what they were seeing because the final demand for what should have been a cheap
A GRATEFUL father is holding a fundraising event for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to say thank-you for its help in saving his daughter's life. Just over a year ago popular fishing boat skipper Eddie Franklin drowned when his vessel Blue Sonata
STAFF were put through their paces before the launch of pharmacies under a new brand in Weymouth. They joined in team- building exercises at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy for the new look Angel Pharmacies. Husband and wife team
THE second phase of a £2 million development plan is being launched at Southwell Busi-ness Park this month. The project will include the new Portland Spa Therapy Suite with relaxation, skin care, beauty and holistic treatments, massages and spa manicures
STYLISTS at a Dor-chester hair salon are calling for a waiting restriction outside their door to be extended to two hours. Dorset County Council is proposing to introduce a one-hour restriction on Olga Road as part of a new residents parking scheme in
THE acoustic quality of stone is well known to all associated with the quarries and now the ringing of the stone has been transformed to visual form by artist Robin Sewell. This striking art form is displayed in a new series of large-scale drawings and
TWO women are trying to trace a horse that went under starter's orders and disappeared from Dorchester many years ago. Fiona Flew and Rachel Holmes heard about the life-size model horse when they opened their Cerijan gift shop at 14 High West Street
THREE young people wowed an audience of councillors when they spoke of the difference that working at a caf has made to their lives. Each told how their involvement with Oh Crumbs in Bridport - a Dorset County Council project - had helped them overcome
HIGHWAYS engineer Steve Howard has hit the road again for another gruelling endur-ance race. Steve pounded his way round a scenic part of the country on the Marathon of Britain 2006 and claimed it was tougher than his previous endurance effort - the
A KNIGHT from Dorset will miss out on an international jousting competition because of confusion over flights. Ed Long, 25, from Stratton near Dorchester, who goes under the stage name the Earl of Warwick, was set to ride as part of the English jousting
